Best Starts for Kids is requesting proposals for its Youth Healing Project, which funds youth-led projects aimed at improving the mental health and well-being of young people.
Donor Name: Best Starts for Kids
State: Washington
County: King County (WA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/17/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The Youth Healing Project is a youth led community funding effort that provides resources and support to small grassroots young leaders advancing solutions that improve the mental health, connection, and well-being of young people ages 14-24 in King County.
Focus populations for this project include communities that are historically marginalized and disproportionately impacted by historical trauma, racism, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other adverse experiences that can impact emotional and mental well-being.
Priorities for this program include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Increased youth leadership, empowerment, and agency
- Improved community well-being
- Youth have increased knowledge and use of healthy coping strategies.
Funding Information
- Total funding for the Youth Healing project is $250,000.
- Applicants can propose less than $9,999.
Grant Period
The funded projects will take place during the 2025 to 2026 school year.
Focus Populations
Focus populations for this RFP include:
- BIPOC youth
- LGBTQ youth
- Youth in King County
- Youth in underserved areas of the County
- Youth aged 14-24
- Youth impacted by substance use (this includes tobacco, vaping, opioid, and fentanyl use)
- Youth who need support accessing healthy coping strategies.
- Youth who are part of historically marginalized groups and communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Are you a young person (between the ages of 14 and 24-years-old) living in King County? Do you want to create mental health supports for young people, or are you already doing work to support youth mental health? You are eligible!
- Young people will need to identify a nonprofit organization (501c3) to be their fiscal sponsor during or after the application process. Young people can work with organizations they trust and are connected to. But if applicants need support connecting to an organization, they can contact Best Starts. They can connect young people to organizations.
For more information, visit BSK.
